EditorialCourtesans Takikawa and Hanaogi from the Ogiya house Mirror of manuscripts of the new beautiful courtesans from the Yoshiwara (series title) Yoshiwara keisei shin bijin jihitsu kagami, Two courtesans, each followed by a shinzo (courtesan in training) a...
EditorialMen reading, writing and smoking pipe at a table, pipe, tobacco, reading, handwriting, writing as activity, Europe, anonymous, c. 1850 - c. 1880, cardboard, photographic paper, albumen print, h 85 mm ? w 170 mm.
EditorialCornett, Soprano zinc (also called cornetto) made of palm wood covered with leather. The instrument has seven finger holes on the front and one thumb hole on the back. Decorated in three places on the top with double heart figures pressed in the leathe...
EditorialSecond corps de garde of Dutch officers (title on object), An interior with various officers. On the right a man is sitting at a writing table, on the left a man is busy with fire from the fireplace, in the middle three men look at a map. Above the chi...
EditorialParchment cover with handwriting, Parchment binding with manuscript, front cover, 1609, Christoph Dambach: B?chsenmeisterey, das ist, kurtze doch eigentliche Erkl?rung deren Dingen, so einem B?chsenmeister f?rnemlich zu wissen von N?then [...]. Frankfu...
EditorialPortrait of a boy sitting in a window niche and dressed in a blue jacket, Portrait of a boy sitting in a chair in a window niche and dressed in a blue jacket. Writing or drawing on a sruk paper. On the frame is a bowl with fruit and vines, a glass of m...
EditorialHandwritten paper in which the remains of the parade bed and corpse of Napoleon I are kept, Paper with handwriting in which remains of the parade bed and corpse of Napoleon I are kept. On the piece of white paper is written in black ink: Remains of the...
EditorialSecond corps de garde of Dutch officers, An interior with various officers. On the right a man is sitting at a writing table, on the left a man is busy with fire from the fireplace, in the middle three men look at a map. Above the chimney a coat of arm...
EditorialWriting on the beach, A young woman is writing on the coast. The wind plays with her scarf and her hair. The woman looks towards the sea and in the air a bird, adolescent, young woman, maiden, dune coast (variant), handwriting, writing as activity flie...
EditorialSilk Fabric with Colorful Painted Floral Pattern, Plain green solid silk in satin weave, the edges interlaced with narrow strip of yellow silk, the bottom interlaced with three and four narrow strips of green silk and with hanging frills. The course is...
EditorialWriting man in a garden looks up to listen to what two men have to tell him Title page for: M. Ca?dy, Den Persiaanschen bogaard, 1688, garden, handwriting, writing as activity, head gear: turban, Jan Luyken, Amsterdam, paper, etching, h 117 mm ? w 67 mm.
EditorialOak box with mementos or Jan van Speijk Paper with text, A paper with a verse in handwriting: As long as I breathe, with God as long as I live ... And Dutch fame preserved and Dutch flag avenged, Jan Carel Josephus van Speijk, Antwerp, 1831 - 1832, paper.
EditorialMen reading, writing and smoking pipe at a table, pipe, tobacco, reading, handwriting, writing as activity, Europe, anonymous, c. 1850 - c. 1880, cardboard, photographic paper, albumen print, h 85 mm ? w 170 mm.
EditorialSecond corps de garde of Dutch officers (title on object), An interior with different officers. On the right a man is sitting at a writing table, on the left a man is busy with fire from the fireplace, in the middle three men look at a map. Above the c...
EditorialCarrying sign of the royal hunting department, Oval brass carrying sign with eyelet with the crowned arm of Louis Napoleon against a drapery (imperial cloak) with a sword (of France's marshal) on either side. Around this the chains belonging to the gra...
EditorialLeather travel suitcase by Johan Rudolf Thorbecke, High square leather suitcase with wooden frame and fabrics and paper interior. The leather is sober processed. The lid is hinged and lockable with a lock. There are two leather handles on either side, ...
EditorialAlbum, Collection of 24 landscape panoramas, of the South Island of New Zealand. The collection is a group of travel photographs most probably a taken by Walter Baldwin Spencer. The handwriting has been attributed to Spencer based on a comparison of hi...
Editorial"Four Portraits: (upper left) A Raja (Perhaps Raja Sarang Rao), by Balchand; (upper right) 'Inayat Khan, by Daulat; (lower left) 'Abd al-Khaliq, probably by Balchand; (lower right) Jamal Khan Qaravul, by Murad", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album.
Editorial'Handwriting upon the wall'. William IV. Political Sketches of H. B. [i.e. John Doyle. A series of coloured lithographic prints.] no. 1-757. London, 1829-43. Source: Tab.435.a.1-8. Plate 131. Volume 2. Language: English.
Editorial‘At Runnymede, at Runnymede / What moves the reeds at Runnymede?’ So begins this poem by Rudyard Kipling (d. 1936), first published in 1911. ‘The Reeds of Runnymede’ was commissioned to accompany a children’s history of England, written by t...
Editorial"Four Portraits: (upper left) A Raja (Perhaps Raja Sarang Rao), by Balchand; (upper right) 'Inayat Khan, by Daulat; (lower left) 'Abd al-Khaliq, probably by Balchand; (lower right) Jamal Khan Qaravul, by Murad", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album.
EditorialSt. Gregory and St. Sebastian (Schr. 1493x), 15th century, Woodcut, hand-colored with handwriting in brown ink, sheet: 7 15/16 x 5 5/16 in. (20.2 x 13.5 cm), Prints, Anonymous, German, 15th century.
EditorialPARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS AND ELECTIONEERING IN THE OLD DAYS: J. DOYLE: "THE HANDWRITING ON THE WALL," MAY 26, 1831 KING (WILLIAM IV.) loq.?"Reform Bill? Can that mean me?".
EditorialAutographs of all works by Beethoven, some of them in his own handwriting, from the possession of Rudolf von Habsburg, Cardinal and Archbishop of Olmuetz. Metronome by Maelzel (1811) .